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Word: mgm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fast Company (MGM) is a romantic comedy about a horse that conies in a winner only when the jockey sings to it. Also figuring in the cast: a wealthy racehorse owner (Nina Foch) and an aspiring actress (Polly Bergen) with a one-horse stable, both of whom are pursuing a handsome trainer (Howard Keel). With its strained horseplay and plodding screenplay. Fast Company is strictly an also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 18, 1953 | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Small Town Girl (MGM) is a Technicolored trifle about a playboy (Farley Granger) who is jailed for speeding through a small town. By Hollywood justice, he finds himself not only in the clutches of the law but also in the arms of the judge's pretty daughter (Jane Powell). She smuggles fried chicken and mince pie into his cell, regales him by singing Small Towns Are Smile Towns, and sneaks him out of jail for a night on New York town. This does not please the playboy's fiancee, Dancing Star Ann Miller. By the fadeout the playboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 13, 1953 | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...dirty white shoes, twisted her stockings to make the seams crooked. She shuffled into Laemmle's office, slouched awkwardly on a couch and whined: "I wanta get outa here. I'm not happy here." He took one good look and was glad to let her go to MGM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Comic Spirit | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...Love Melvin (MGM) is a Technicolored song & dance show with little to offer except the animated presence of Donald O'Connor. Cast as a photographer's brash assistant whose main job is lugging flashbulbs, O'Connor falls head over dancing heels in love with a pretty Broadway chorine (Debbie Reynolds),and boastfully promises to get her picture on the cover of his magazine. For the next several issues, photographs of prizefighters, puppies and horses keep appearing on the magazine cover with increasingly monotonous regularity-but never one of the chorine. Does Debbie ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...Story of Three Loves (MGM) is rich, triple-scoop helping of boy-meets-girl aimed at the matinee carriage trade. Dressed up with Technicolor, an assortment of stars and a variety of Continental backgrounds, the picture presents more than two hours of romance in three loosely linked episodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 16, 1953 | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

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